Ron Paul To Everyone: Drop Out, So I Can Take On Mitt Romney Alone

"The race is becoming more clearly a two-man race between establishment candidate Mitt Romney and Ron Paul, the candidate of authentic change. That means there is only one true conservative choice.

"Ron Paul has won more votes in Iowa and New Hampshire than any candidate but Mitt Romney.

"Ron Paul and Mitt Romney have been shown in national polls to be the only two candidates who can defeat Barack Obama.

"And Ron Paul and Mitt Romney are the only two candidates who can run a full, national campaign, competing in state after state over the coming weeks and months. Ron Paul's fundraising numbers -- over $13 million this quarter -- also prove he will be able to compete with Mitt Romney. No other candidate can do all of these things.

"Ron Paul is clearly the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney as the campaign goes forward.

“We urge Ron Paul’s opponents who have been unsuccessfully trying to be the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney to unite by getting out of the race and uniting behind Paul’s candidacy."

Meanwhile, campaigning in South Carolina, Perry asks for people to (get this) look at his actual record.

"Give me a second look. Look at my record," Perry pleaded with voters in Anderson on Monday, the second day of a South Carolina tour that will take him up to the make-or-break January 21 presidential primary.

Perry finished a dismal fifth in Iowa's January 3 nominating contest and briefly considered dropping out of the 2012 Republican White House race before announcing last week he would skip Tuesday's New Hampshire primary and focus on South Carolina.

"I don't quit. I'm not about to quit on this country," he told a small crowd of supporters and diners at a restaurant in Anderson.

There was a time when records mattered to Republicans.

I'll be on FTRadio at 11 pm, live, to whine more about no one voting for my preferred candidate.